PARTNERS OF REQUESTERNational Vocational Training

Institute (NVTI)

IMPLEMENTING AGENCIES

BRITISH COUNCILGIZ

INTERVENTION

• Private-Public Partnership; Local Market needs Analysis

• Curriculum Development Training for facilitators of TVET institutions

• Career Guidance and Counselling workshop for Vocational Institutions

in Ghana

BUDGET€ 62,951

DURATIONFrom 21 January to 6 April 2019

Fair River International Association for Development (FARIAD) is a private TVET provider, formally accredited by the National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) to train in vocational skills since 2015.

It focuses on training in agriculture, business and value chain development for rural women and youth and operates a nationally accredited training facility in Kpassa, Volta Region, with its Head Office in Accra. It also conducts international and regional training workshops across the country.

It has professional partners who travel to rural communities to educate groups of young people in skills that will improve their economic opportunities, while contributing positively to the economic development of their communities.

IDENTIFIED NEED

The main objective of the project is to support VET centres to build their capacity and knowledge and overcome challenges in three areas in order to support young people’s transition from training to employment:

• Public Private Partnership - to provide guidance on aligning training programmes to the needs of the private sector and engaging more effectively with companies to accept more placements. To improve strategies for engaging employers in different aspects of TVET provisions and developing PPPs.

• Career Guidance and Counselling – to provide targeted training to introduce new career guidance methods to support youth in their transition to the local labour market.

• Curriculum Development including in food and beverage processing and dairy, as well as in entrepreneurship (agripreneurship), life skills and ICT.

REQUESTER

FARIADFair River International

Association for Development

Co-funded by the European Union A multi partner project

GHANA(Request 008)

BACKGROUND

Action Fact Sheet

VET Toolbox Coordination HubEnabel – Belgian Development Agency, Rue Haute 147, 1000 Brussels – Belgium

T + 32 (0) 2 505 37 00 | info@vettoolbox.eu | www.vettoolbox.eu

LESSONS LEARNED

WHAT WORKED WELL

• Communication and awareness creation strategies on the project development objectives

• There was a high level of participation of targeted groups on realizing the project objectives

• Readiness of project beneficiaries to support the sustainability of the project

WHAT WE WILL DO DIFFERENTLY

• Increase the level of advocacy campaign to include more marginalized and disadvantaged groups

• Provide more incentive mechanisms to sustain their interest throughout the project life-cycle

ACTIVITIES

The intervention focussed on supporting the enhancement of the skills system in the areas of private sector engagement, curriculum development and careers guidance, through:

• providing advisory and training services to targeted participants and strengthening their capacity to establish linkages between the public and private sector

• providing a platform for careers guidance and counselling services to strengthen their capacity to offer career guidance to prospective students

• providing advisory services on curriculum improvement in the areas of Meat and Fish processing to meet the standards of labour market.

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ACHIEVEMENTS

• Over 130 participants are aware of the programs and the project development objectives

26Coordinators in Career

Guidance & Counseling trained

21Facilitators in Curriculum

Development trained

16Managers in Needs Assessment trained

93%Satisfied with the outcomes

86%What was learned is

useful in the workplace

100%Improved their knowledge

17Public organisations involved

9Private organisations involved

3 separate workshops held